Two Supermassive Black Holes are on a Collision Course

Located 89 million light-years from Earth, the gigantic black holes will eventually merge.

via Gizmodo

Through a standard telescope, the nearby galaxy NGC 7727 looks like a gossamer tumbleweed drifting in the night sky. But within it are two supermassive black holes beginning a dance that will end with their violent merger. As a team of astronomers recently found, these objects are closer to Earth than any other supermassive pair.

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